I really liked this! I love branching skill trees and repetitive game play.
But the one thing I couldn't help feel, achingly, is how much potential this game has. It's got so much room to be more. The framework is all there, it's a lovely, clean experience. ...But there could've been a skill to auto-run, for example.
There's so many directions this game could expand into. Side rooms you can duck into. Treasure, traps, truth? (The ending choice is interesting, but it feels.. Anti-climatic, after doing the same fight 50+ times to get there, y'know? I feel like we should be feeling rather threatened, given the Row could generate another hero or a demon ;o (How long does godhood truly last in such a world...)
I genuinely found very little reason to ever move left and right except to dodge a boss beam.
I would have liked some kind of shake up to the enemies after a point.
The terrain could change, the Row shifts, the previously safe colored panels on the floor become fleshed out traps, making moving actually useful past concentrating a lil damage or dodging a boss beam.
I stayed for the beautiful skill tree. I kept waiting to see if maybe something like "gilding" the skills (to upgrade/ evolve them), or some kind of something to happen for more skills.
I love that skill tree, just saying.
I often forgot I had skills, until Prestige 3, where in the final 15 seconds I would active everything except Harvester, which I would occasionally remember to use in crowds.
There's so much possibility. So many ways for this to branch out. (Personally, I'm a huge fan of crazy stuff like entirely changing the universe, I.e, let's say an ending where you destroy the Row, and break the veil- Maybe the world becomes a different style to signify "real world" ;3) Touch grass ending lmfao
Anyways, this was worth hours of my life, and I'm saying it could be more hours of my life, ya dig?
I hope to see more games, more more more, in the future. There's worlds to be made, and you guys, have made a fine world, fit to flourish if fed.
